Social Characteristics of Recent Emigration from West Cork
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33178/Keywords:
emigration, poverty, ireland, corkAbstract
Critics of Irish emigration have called it 'a blight on Irish society' but this is neither socially or geographically accurate. Emigration affects some sections of Irish society far more than others. It is still probably more deeply-embedded in underdeveloped rural areas than in urban areas, although these also are experiencing high levels of emigration (Fox 1979). Emigration has long been a fact of family life in small farming and working class communities throughout the west of Ireland (Brody, 1973; Cousens, 1965; Donnelly, 1975; Fitzpatrick, 1984; O'Grada, 1977). It has certainly been a fact of life in west Cork.
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